On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 10:37:27PM +0200, Karl Pitrich wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 09:48:31PM +0200, Karl Pitrich wrote:
> > > root is mountend on root_device, not on /dev/wd0a,
> > > so i did a
> > > mount -u /
> > > at top of /etc/rc.
> 
> On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 22:02, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > What does your /etc/fstab looks like ?
> 
> the fstab is correct. (afaik from openbsd and linux)
> all devices correspond to intended mount points.
> 
> when it tries to remount rw at boot time, it complains that fstab and
> real mount device differ. (i forgot the exact msg)
>  
> > > i cant get into dev config mode with -c
> > > openfirmware shows the boot params i pass,
> > > but the kernel seems to ignore them.
> 
> On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 22:02, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > I don't understand this question.
> 
> hm, sorry. it seems the kernel ignores the -c boot parameter,
> so i canot start the device configuration.
> 
> 
> > > when starting init:
> > > 
> > > init: Creating mfs /dev
> > > chgrp: not found (many times)
> > > set{u,g}id pid 238 (df) was invoked by uid 0 ppid 237 (sh) with fd 0
> > > closed (also many times)
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 22:02, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > It really seems you have a partial (aborted) installation.
> > How did you install ?
> 
> i burnt a cdrom.
> 
> install seemed fine, except man and misc packages were missing.
> 
> then i booted single user and did installboot, configured the system
> (rc.conf, etc)

OK, so you forgot to run
./MAKEDEV all
in /etc

this may also solve your mount problem.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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